All songs by J.D. Hutchison / J.D. Hutchison Music Publishing / BMI
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Little Legs Moan

The woman I’m lovin’
Do me all she can
She does not want me
Wants some other man
    Got the little legs moan (3)

    Gonna go to China
Maybe Afri-cay
Gotta leave my little legs
Got to get away
    From the little legs moan (3)

    “Don’t want to hurt you”
That’s what she said
She did not hurt me boys
She killed me stone dead
    With the little legs moan (3)

    Of all the things
The devil has made
To bust up a man’s heart
And lay him in the Shade
    It’s the little legs moan (3)

Since My Bird Has Flied Away

Pour some more coffee in my coffee cup
I don’t know why, I don’t even like the stuff
But nothing seems to matter
Since my bird has flied away

    I need to change my head around
Maybe trip out to the zoo
Take a walk downtown
Hell, I don’t know what to do
But nothing seems to matter
Since my bird has flied away

    I remember the night – stars shining bright
Underneath the apple tree
It was then that she said – I was severely misled
That she would never leave me

    But now she’s gone off with some other dude to stay
And I’m so all alone since she went away
And nothing seems to matter
Since my bird has flied away

    I remember the night – stars shining bright
Underneath the apple tree
It was then that she said – I was severely misled
That she would never leave me

    But now she’s gone off with some other dude to stay
And I’m so all alone since she went away
And nothing seems to matter
Since my bird has flied away

Ooby Doobly

You are the sweetest Ooby
That I ever did see
I really love ya, Doobly
‘Cause you’re so good to me

    Ooby Doobly
Ooby Doobly all the time
Ooby Doobly
I can’t get you out of my mind

    My mama is my mama
And she don’t like you
Your daddy thinks I’m just
A cocka-doodly-do

    Ooby Doobly
Ooby Doobly all the time
Ooby Doobly
I can’t get you out of my mind

    Why don’t we do like the birdies do
And fly on outta here
We’ll build ourselves a little old nest
In the upper atmosphere
We’ll be so happy all the time
In our little home up above
We’ll live together forever and ever
In love, love, love

    Why don’t we do like the birdies do
And fly on outta here
We’ll build ourselves a little old nest
In the upper atmosphere
We’ll be so happy all the time
In our little home up above
We’ll live together forever and ever
In love, love, love

    Ooby Doobly
Ooby Doobly all the time
Ooby Doobly
I can’t get you out of my mind

    Ooby Doobly
Ooby Doobly all the time
Ooby Doobly
I can’t get you out of my mind

Love at a Distance

You write me such pretty letters
But words on paper is as cold as stone
You call me up to say you love me
But I don’t want to hear it on the telephone

    It makes me sad – thinking about all the
Things we coulda had
I’m in bad need of assistance
Can’t take no more of this love at a distance

    My mind lines up against me
I reckon it a gain – I reckon it a loss
So many lonesome highways
So many lonesome rivers to cross

    It breaks my heart
For us to have to be so far apart
I’m in bad need of assistance
Can’t take no more of this love at a distance

    It breaks my heart
For us to have to be so far apart
I’m in bad need of assistance
Can’t take no more of this love at a distance
Oh no

The Song Around Your Life

​I spend a lot of time thinkin’ ‘boutch lately, lady
Just thinkin’ ‘bout me and you
Thinkin’ ‘bout the way that we used to live together
And the things that we used to do
Through the bedroom window, the whip-poor-will
And the barking of the fox
I know I couldn’t bring back a minute of it
Not even for a million bucks

    It’s been a long time since I’ve seen you, little lady
Just murderin’ the time away
Hear you laughin’ at the things you know ain’t even funny
And the silly things that people say
On your hands and knees through the counterfeit
Through the sham and through the shuck
You know you couldn’t change not a minute of it
Not even for a million bucks

    But it’s oh, no
You’ll find nobody cares
Well it’s oh, no
You’ll find no mercy here
At the song around your life
It will cut you like a knife
And if you don’t know just what it is you’re doing
Then you better be a-going home

    Sad song makin’ me feel so lonely
Just magnifies my sighs
I’d like to tell you that I love you, mama
But you know it only makes me cry
I’d like to pick you up again with a brand new plan
But I know there can’t be no such luck
I know you’d never, never, ever come back again
Not even for a million bucks

    But it’s oh, no
You’ll find nobody cares
Well it’s oh, no
You’ll find no mercy here
At the song around your life
It will cut you like a knife
And if you don’t know just what it is you’re doing
Then you better be a-going home

Ivory Bones and Ebony Dots

Ivory bones and ebony dots
Sometimes gonna lead you to the graveyard plot
The game tonight brought on a fight
That ended up in pistol shots

    Now, I been a gambler most all of my life
Lost everything I had to the cards and the dice
And I ain’t no stranger to the gun and the knife
But I ain’t doin’ that shit no more, because

    Ivory bones and ebony dots
Sometimes gonna lead you to the graveyard plot
The game tonight brought on a fight
That ended up in pistol shots

    There was six-finger Bob layin’ dead on the floor
Some other dude a-floppin’ in the grime and the gore
When somebody through the transom said,
“Wunna you sports better stay with the dead
And tell them coppers when they arrive
Why these here brothers ain’t alive

    Ivory bones and ebony dots
Sometimes gonna lead you to the graveyard plot
The game tonight brought on a fight
That ended up in pistol shots

    Now, I was the furthest away from the door
The others got there a long time before
And while I ain’t scared, I am rather fleet
And I am in possession of two excellent feet
And before I be dealin’ with them po-leece
I’m gonna be down that road a piece

    Ivory bones and ebony dots
Sometimes gonna lead you to the graveyard plot
The game tonight brought on a fight
That ended up in pistol shots

    Ivory bones and ebony dots
Sometimes gonna lead you to the graveyard plot
The game tonight brought on a fight
That ended up in pistol shots

Another Fool’s Café

Well if you ain’t never been in here
You better hang around close to the door
Have a drink or two and then move it on out
If you’ve never been here before
You may not care to stick it out – no –
But then again you may
You just make yourself at home
In another fool’s café

    Well there’s a Hank Williams freak
With a guitar sittin’ on a barstool
Everybody buys him drinks
To crank him up and make him play
He’s a regular jukebox of heartache and sorrow
But they all laugh anyway
People like to laugh in another fool’s café

    See that silky lookin’ dude admiring himself in the mirror
With the pretty long hair and extremely hip array
He lays cocaine and reefer on the ‘billy boys
Without a trace of parano-I-A
But they couldn’t do without him in another fool’s café

    Got the ladies of the day and the ladies of the night
All lookin’ for a hell of a time
Gentlemen lightin’ their cigarettes
In relentless pantomime
Everybody’s talking while the guitar sings
But they never have a thing to say
They’re all laughing but they’re lonesome
In another fool’s café

    See that mountain of muscle,
He’s the bull of the woods in the county
It’s advisable boys, not to never, never get in his way
Because he’s liable to knuckle you about the head
If you look at him crossways
And he’s always hangin’ out here
In another foo’s café

    There’s always an empty table or two
It’s a hill jack twilight zone
The door is always open
And the lights are always on
Ain’t no bottom to the bottle, boys
No difference in the night and day
There ain’t no hands on the clock
In another fool’s café

I Pity the Son and the Daughter

I pity the son and the daughter
Born in this world today
Of strife and bitter confusion
That leads them all astray

    I pity the mother and father
Who watch in sad dismay
As all that they cherish and treasure
Is lost along the way

    I pity the greatest captain
Out in the blood-dark sea
Who cannot rest his vigil
And, weary, never sleeps

    I pity the son and the daughter
Who crumble like clay
I pity the son and the daughter
Born in this world today

Approximately Love

​The other night I felt like I might take a ramble
To the café coffee café ‘way down town
Put the spit and polish on the old preamble
Warm up a stool and toss a couple down

    The band was all tuned up and set to start in
The dancers were all gathered on the floor
When my eyes clapped on a sight that did my heart in
A total vision standing at the door

    The expression on her face surpassing winsome
Her hair hung down in ringlets tight and loose
She wore a pleated dress of stunning crimson
And on her feet two tiny scarlet dancing shoes

    Then came a flash like lightning
Like a sign from up above
The muscles in my throat began to tighten
The feeling was approximately love

    Just then the barkeep tapped me on the shoulder
Said, “Here’s some advice for you, sport – and it’s free
That redbird there that’s got you all a-smoldering
Ain’t got no use for the likes of you or me

No man upon this earth has ever kissed her
Though many have been taken by her charms
There’s not a chance for you if you’re a ‘mister’
To be encircled by those sleek and muscled arms

    It ain’t no use to try to rearrange her
She’s just the way she’s always gonna be
It constitutes a clear and present danger
To be hangin’ out in her proximity.”

    Red shoes on the dance floor
Red dress that sways and swirls
She don’t care much ‘bout what a man’s for
She’s not exactly like the other girls

Don’t Talk About Love

Nothing ain’t nothing – everything is gone
Ever since they put a man on the moon
You can talk about man – you can talk about woman
But don’t talk about love

    Everyone’s talking – but they ain’t said a thing
From the lowliest station right up to the king
They can talk anout their own self
They can talk about one another
But they can’t talk about love

    Don’t talk about god – things you don’t understand
Poor old god’s doing the best that he can
You can talk about women but don’t talk about love

    Nothing ain’t nothing – everything is gone
Ever since they put a man on the moon
You can talk about man – you can talk about woman
But don’t talk about love

My Little Darlin’

I felt all the time we lived together
That she only kept me for a plaything
How she seemed so like a little child
Who stays a while then laughs and runs away

    I heard all the talk a-going down
She just had to sleep around
Though I still cared for my little darlin’
I know she no longer cares for me

    When I’m dead and laying in my coffin
And my friends all stand around me weeping
Then perhaps I will forget about her
When I’m in that deep and dreamless sleep

    Now I know just what a fool I’ve been
It’s so easy now to see
Though my heart breaks for my little darlin’
I know she no longer cares for me

Devil Getcha Baby

Devil gonna getcha, baby
Come and love me one more time
Devil gonna getcha, baby
Woncha come and love me one more time
Ain’t nothin’ we do be wrong, babe
Every little thing we do gonna turn out right

    Go and tell your mama
We’re just gonna take a walk out in the park
Tell your old mama
We just take a little walk in the park
Gonna treat you real good, baby
Have you to come back home, babe, before it gets dark

    Tell your old daddy
We’re just gonna take a drive around
Go tell your big old daddy
We’ll just take a little bitty-bitty drive around
I’ll stick my big feet out the window
Getcher little ol’ head t’ go down down down

I’ll stick my big feet out the window
Getcher little ol’ head t’ go down down down

You and the World Outside

If words alone could break a heart
Mine never would be broken
But just one look from my darlin’s eye
And not a word need never be spoken
Not a word need ever be spoken
    A little feathered bird in flight
Up in the sky all alone
Ever so swiftly is brought down to the earth
By some child’s sling and stone
By some child’s sling and stone

    A tender heart so like a bird
Once broken it can’t never be mended
You must go your way as I go mine
And that’s how true love’s ended
And that’s how true love’s ended

    The time has come for us to part
I know that I will survive
I hope that you may find your way
You and the world outside
You and the world outside

That Ain’t All of Me

You can check me out
Walkin’ down the street
Maybe not the kinda guy
That you’d wanna meet
But that shufflin’ duffer
That you seem to see
Well, that ain’t all of me

    Back in 1 – 9 – 7 – OH
I’m lookin’ good
A respectable figure
In the neighborhood
Now the years have fled
So precipitously
But that ain’t all of me

    There’s people think they own you
Bone, hide, and hair
They tell you that they love you
But they don’t care
First they want yer money
Then it’s yer clothes
Aw, but that’s the way it goes

    You can have it all, people
I don’t mind
Take anything of value
That you think you can find
You can add my kingdom of the street
To yer kingdom of thin air

    I’m broke even
I’m up on my dues
Just another good ol’ billy boy
Lost in the blues
The leaves are all scattered
Underneath the tree
But that ain’t all of me